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Extreme Neutrality
02:49
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Never before have we never done it before
Stay on zero stuck on the concrete
Winds and waves can wash away the careful positioning
Facts and acts attack and be back but you’ll stay neutral
I saw you doin the neutron dance
You were free and free of charge
Gratuitous vacancy
Stand without lean
Driven by gravity
Extreme neutrality
There never once was there never wasn’t us
Never had to be a minus or a plus
You stay unprejudiced. Don’t care what the conflict is
Simon says Simon’s over here and Simon stands still
I saw you doin the neutron dance
You were free and free of charge
Gratuitous vacancy
Stand without lean
Driven by gravity
I saw you neutering all your sounds
All your pets and all your nouns
Turning off the electricity
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Don’t Just Stand There
02:32
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Don’t just stand there
Standing is insufficient
You can stand there but
you ought to do other things too
I can be convinced that your stance is acceptable
The shadow that you cast has a charismatic character
You are a creature of substance and opacity
If allowed I’d insist on additional activity
Waht’s your name? If you stand there and answer
Will I have enough information to make a good decision?
Until I know more I’ll call you standing entity and I will try to be polite and suggest that you don’t just stand
Do you stand to eradicate the evil in your heart
Do you stand to instantiate the truest highest art?
Such questions you cannot stand to hear me ask
And where’d you get the idea that standing is your only task?
Just standing there might feel alright at certain times
But I’ve made the case for present uncertainty with my rhymes
I stand with her and him I stand with them I stand fir it
Who cares? It only matters if there’s measurable benefit
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3. |
Someone Here Knows
02:25
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Lights are flickering inside a place where I should have a mind
I have half a mind to go and find the other half
I really do see what’s so funny but I’m trying not to laugh at you
I’m glad that someone here knows what to do
Everybody’s bodies are interacting bodily
Many mentalities are mental in this establishment
I really do see what’s so funny but I’m trying not to laugh at you
I’m glad that someone here knows what to do
If you’re smart you will grow big and strong I have no idea how
If your brain can’t refrain from insane exercises outside of your skull you won’t be dull
Oh well
I am only sensitive to nonsense in the sense it’s indecent
I’m incensed by my intent to go to the tires where their wires went
I really do see what’s so funny but I’m trying not to laugh at you
I’m glad that someone here knows what to do
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Good Molecule
01:54
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Damn fool food
I have breathed all you can eat
Dressed as a car
mmmm
Make a strong bond
With a good molecule
She started to write a play
After a good meal
You look for friends to hold your heart
With gloves made of spider silk
And other things that someone built
And other things that someone built
Good molecules
Someone got
Confused by their own bad dreams
All you can you sing
Dressed as insect angels
When I was young
I kept beetles and fed them seeds
Grew up tall and flew to other trees
Remember me
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Logical Path
02:53
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She was broke and spoke in a bright black coat
She used to be a lizard in a joke that she told
10000 ago it was hot we were caught in
The traffic for the end of the world
She used to be a larva and she dressed like a man
She used to have a bigger kind of body plan and
10000 ago it was hot we were caught in
The traffic for the end of the world
We had an easy time on the way back home
We took the logical path and the rational road
There wasn’t much to avoid, wasn’t high to climb
We had an easy time
I was easily put into a state of unease
To state my purpose at the stateline as we fled the rising seas
10000 years ago i was not a robot
I was avoiding the end of the world
Easily experienced and expected unreasonably
The logic of our blessings was impeached and executed
A million years from now we’ll regret and forget about
The traffic for the end of the world
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ASAP
01:24
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Different Sun
02:11
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Tidally locked. He lives on the day side
The sun far away and always above
She doen’t feel fear. She feels suspicion and love
Population 50000000, give or take 50000000
Constant daytime perpetual sun
half awake the other half asleep
She doesn’t feel fear. She feels suspicion and love
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Dust, Documents
03:11
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All kinds of soil can make you dirty
All kinds of plants are tasty
And the dust settled on my shoulder
The dust settled on my shoulder
I’d like the resonate with envy
I’ll take a walk in backgrounds of the nation
And the dust settled on my shoulder
The dust settled on my shoulder
All of a sudden I have handles on my neck
I can outrun horses
No dust on me
No killer bees
No baby seas
Can you believe?
I can show my documents to you
I’ll show my papers to
The storm is over and I don’t mind excavating anything you want me to
No dust on me
No killer bees
No baby seas
Can you believe?
No I can’t believe it.
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Earthlings Now
02:54
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Round here don’t worry ‘bout collapsing
Gravity is mild it’ll make you smile
Radiation doesn’t keep you in a cage
Gonna stick around for a while
It’s not so bad that our ship broke down
We’re all earthlings now
Don’t worry about oxygen packets
You’re gonna lose the habit
Round here air grows on trees
So focus on making friends and relax
Societies have alread been founded
Hope you like towns, we’re surrounded
You can get your food and little bits of paper
They’ll give you that for writing codes
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Lots of fun so we run. Run in the dark
Very dark so we start. End and start
Barcode on my heart
Barcode on my heart
Barcode on my heart
And my bones in the shopping cart
Lets go shopping while we’re napping. at the florest with your dog
So we ran to the forest. And the flowers there were dark
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Filthyness
02:16
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Get your sleepiness out of here
Squeeze your fear out of your rear
Get your sleepiness gone by sunrise
This time it may surprise you
I been making a mess oh yes I’m a walking mess factory
I would clean the mess keeps coming
Making that filthyness grow
Scratch the chair and curl up on it
Jump in the safari car
Watch the monkeys run around
Sorry about all of our messes
Disruptive maker interruptive percolator
Slinging dirt at everything moving
I’m aware of the vexation it causes but I wanna do it anyway
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Harvester of Sweet Juice
02:04
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Foggy Day
01:51
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On a foggy day we could lose our way
We could run across some danger i think
Maybe the elevation pinched upon our brains
decompressed the thoughts we had
That’s what happened, I think
In a lazy climb we could waste some time
We could miss a lot of deadlines I think
Don’t be late. But definitley don’t be on time
Grandma said the sun’s going to burn the goldmine and deadlines
Go on take a ride on the falls
They won’t mind at all
I said your name a thousand times
I think I understand why
The choir sang it for SO long
On a foggy day we could lose our way
We could run across some danger I think
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Time is Only Lies
01:17
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Food and helicopters everywhere
Dressed in wires with noodles everywhere
Light is just a misconception
Time is only lies
Fetal frog is made of ice and mind
Ambulate in hallway so unkind
Mass is a misunderstanding
Time is only lies
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The Habitat
04:01
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No more mistakes be extra precise I’ll take sufficient care.
I won’t be allowing any disturbance to the habitat
They took precautions and you’ll see. There's no getting out of here
Aren't we indebted to the engineers
They've taken all control.
We're getting out in dreams for now but not for long
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Sam Arnold Austin, Texas
(photo by Matt Silaski) Metal, Jazz, Art-pop Americana singer-songwriter, electronic and experimental composer/instrumentalist Sam Arnold is a musician living in Austin TX. Sam generally collaborates to varying degrees with some of the best creative musicians and engineers in the Austin progressive art-music scene, including from his bands Opposite Day and Stop Motion Orchwstra. ... more
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